13. The Apprenticeship Experience

We meet four people at the Port Kembla Steelworks in Australia, who are working in electrical and mechanical roles. Aidan Grindle, Bradley Heino, Naomi Alves and Stuart Kerr are at different stages of their careers but they each have one thing in common: they all started at BlueScope as apprentices. In each interview, they explain what it means to train as an apprentice or learn a trade and where it has taken them.

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Links and Show Notes

• Read a transcript of the episode.
• FocusOn New Apprentices in 2021 (TVBlueScope video) — featuring Naomi Alves
• Apprenticeship (Wikipedia article)
• Basic oxygen steelmaking (Wikipedia article) — known as 'the BOS' at the Port Kembla steelworks
• FocusOn Basic Oxygen Steelmaking - the BOS (TVBlueScope video)
• HVTC website — apprenticeship partner with BlueScope in Australia
• Learn more about careers with BlueScope in Australia on the dedicated website.